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4/14/2021
Starting April 19, anyone 16 years and older living in Massachusetts can get vaccinated against COVID-19. Campus health experts and researchers recommend vaccination for everyone who can safely get the shot -- so that we can protect ourselves and others in our campus community.

4/9/2021
As UMass Lowell’s 2021 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies, Fania Davis, spoke via Zoom of American history through the lenses of race, justice inequities and how we begin healing. Davis is the one of the foremost voices on restorative justice.

4/8/2021
Several recent UML alumni are doing their part to bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end through their vaccine production work at pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer.

4/8/2021
Public Health Prof. Wenjun Li researches people’s access to resources that support healthy aging, with a focus on how social and environmental factors such as income, race and residential neighborhoods contribute to inequities in health and well-being. He’s also collaborating on research projects involving veterans.

4/7/2021
Two researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering – Asst. Profs. Yan Gu and Marianna Maiaru – were recognized by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force, respectively, with faculty early career development grants totaling $1,015,000. The funding will help advance research on robot walking and the process modeling of composite materials.

3/31/2021
This story looks at research led by Prof. Daniel Obrist that determined a vast amount of mercury gas in the atmosphere is absorbed by plants, leading it to deposit into soils.

3/19/2021
Sabrina Noel, Principal Investigator, is a member of the CGRP, and Andrew Hostetler and Karen Devereaux Melillo, CGRP members, are co-investigators on this Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant, 2020-2023.

3/7/2021
The partnership with Lowell General Hospital began last month and pairs healthcare workers from the hospital with nursing students from the university's College of Health Sciences.

2/22/2021

2/18/2021
Kennedy College of Sciences Dean Noureddine Melikechi is among the experts interviewed about NASA’s successful mission to Mars.